by Heidi Webb | May 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
What door do I walk through, and why do I choose it? Those were the questions examined at an ArtBoston exhibit that I, and many others walked through. Doors opened and shut as we went, and a computer kept track of the choices made, tallying them up, and...
by Heidi Webb | Feb 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, this map by Charles Joseph Minard portrays the losses suffered by Napoleon’s army in the Russian campaign of 1812. Beginning at the Polish-Russian border, the thick band shows the size of the army at each...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Oh, Ouch, ouch, ouch! My leg…. Help! My ski. Please get it off!. Oh, Owwww. Damn. That really hurt. Oh, great. Thank you. That’s better. Can you get the other ski off? That really hurt. Where does it hurt? I’m not sure. My knee but I’m not sure where. It didn’t pop....
by Heidi Webb | Dec 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
For as long as I can remember, the power of language has fascinated me: which words we choose to express our thoughts, the tone we use when speaking, and–once they’re out–the impact they have on others. When a couple that had once been in love is no...
by Heidi Webb | Oct 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
“The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.” -Code of Hammurabi, 1772 B.C. Last weekend, I visited the Holocaust Museum in D.C. for the first time. I was in town for the International Association of...
